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funny—Andy Borowitz: Krugman Could Turn into Massive Douchebag, Colleagues Fear

One day after the Nobel committee announced that Paul Krugman had won the 2008 Nobel Prize for economics, colleagues of Mr. Krugman voiced concerns that winning the coveted award could turn him into an egregious douchebag.
At The New York Times, where Mr. Krugman is an op-ed page columnist, and at Princeton University, where he is a professor of economics, co-workers of the newly-minted Nobel laureate were reportedly bracing for the worst.
“I think it’s safe to say that Paul had pretty high self-esteem before the Nobel thing went down,” said one of Mr. Krugman’s Princeton associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “But now he’s walking around like he’s Jay-Z or something.”
The first ominous sign, according to the associate, came at a meeting of the economics department this morning, when Mr. Krugman showed up with a coffee mug reading, “No. 1 Economist.”
Andy Borowitz: Krugman Could Turn into Massive Douchebag, Colleagues Fear.

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Japan's new professional seducers – Times Online

Nods head in agreement!

“It’s much easier to seduce a man than a woman,” he goes on. “Women don’t have affairs for fun; for them it’s serious.” That makes it far more difficult to manipulate a woman than a man. Men are not suspicious when a lovely young girl starts chatting to them. Even a bald 40-year-old salesman in a crumpled suit with a cheap briefcase assumes he’s irresistible to women. Men are also much less hesitant about having sex with someone they hardly know.
Japan’s new professional seducers – Times Online.

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Funny Not So Much But Funny Enough

hmm! my respect for Harvard grad students just went done a notch!
link here:
One commenter asks if I had the same experience with my own students. My students are not precisely representative, but it’s worth noting that they’re not immune. I once had a Harvard grad student call me at 10pm the night before the exam (not sure how she got my mobile number) to berate me for discussing something called the “Cold War” in class as if everyone was supposed to know what it was about. She said she hoped it wasn’t testable.